Rough week

[Chromio]

Well everyone I've been doing my best to stay strong through this whole hairloss process, but it's getting harder and harder each day. I've been taking my finasteride 1mg ED in hopes that I could at least maintain what I have but it seems my thinning has no plans of stopping soon. I hate looking in the mirror or catching my reflection on something and seeing what has become of my hair.

Within this week I've had 3 comments about my hairloss. First one was from a friend who made a slight jab at my hairline. The second was from a co worker who is also balding and said I was catching up to him. The third and worst was from my own mother. I came home today and she was telling me I needed to start saving more $ instead of wasting it on a products for my hairloss and that "whatever is going to happen is going to happen." That just pissed me off.

In conclusion I'm doing my best to hang in there. I have a new job with some cool dudes and the funny thing is, is that yeah I will be saving my money.... For a hair transplant lol

 

[g.i joey]

baldies will throw any jab possible at a man with a receding hairline, just so they can relate to you.. if you think about it, all the shots sent at u were jokes, especially the one from your friend. me and my friends rip on each others hairloss all the time, its nothing. im not the worst out of us but i still get the occassional hairline shot, were treating it at least, we should be able to laugh. just stay positive dude, you'll make it on finasteride i really doubt your hair wont get much worse. how long have u been on?

 

[I.D WALKER]

Hey Chromio when did you start on finasteride.?
I definitely know what you mean about mirrors. I remember my mom tried her best to console me when I tried to explain my Androgenetic Alopecia anxieties. She said something to the effect that even without hair I'll always be handsome. She meant to help, but I wasn't buying it. A lion is not a lion when his mane is gone.

 

[username425]

Well everyone I've been doing my best to stay strong through this whole hairloss process, but it's getting harder and harder each day. I've been taking my finasteride 1mg ED in hopes that I could at least maintain what I have but it seems my thinning has no plans of stopping soon. I hate looking in the mirror or catching my reflection on something and seeing what has become of my hair.

Within this week I've had 3 comments about my hairloss. First one was from a friend who made a slight jab at my hairline. The second was from a co worker who is also balding and said I was catching up to him. The third and worst was from my own mother. I came home today and she was telling me I needed to start saving more $ instead of wasting it on a products for my hairloss and that "whatever is going to happen is going to happen." That just pissed me off.

In conclusion I'm doing my best to hang in there. I have a new job with some cool dudes and the funny thing is, is that yeah I will be saving my money.... For a hair transplant lol

I feel you man. It's like things would be a lot better if no one commented about it and just left you alone. I had pretty much a public ridicule when I went back to school, whole group of people went out for a school function and my hair (I buzzed it because density in hairline disappeared) was a primary topic of discussion. But people got used to it after a week and now it was looked at as a stylistic choice more than anything.

If you don't want to deal with the comments, I do suggest buzzing it. It's in style, look at Drake now - there was a GQ article a month or two ago that buzzing it was an alpha move. If you're in that in-between stage, like I am, where you don't know if the hair thinning is finasteride or if it's actually going for good, it may be a good move. If you're comfortable pulling it off. And then just pray to the finasteride gods that it will regain some density, or pray to the gods that something triggers and changes in your genetic code. It sucks though, I'm with you.

 

[Agustin Araujo]

Hey Chromio, I know hair loss is a really though thing to deal with. It's not the easiest thing to stay strong about since it's a problem which we literally have zero control over ourselves, and something like that is enough to put anyone down whoever's going through it when one really thinks about it. There's no doubt people in general aren't very respectful towards the condition of hair loss, seldom sympathize for the individual suffering from it.

Chromio, how long have you been taking 1 milligram of Finasteride daily, and at what date did you start?

 

[Chromio]

Thanks for the support guys it's good knowing I'm not alone in this.

Ive been on finasteride for about 7 months now. When I started my shedding came to almost a complete stop. However, this past month I've been shedding like a dog. The whole top of my head took a hit. I'm just hoping/praying that it's a shed from the finasteride and that it'll grow back stronger.

As for the comments people make about my hair, I'm pretty good at letting it go in one ear and right out the other. These forums are a great place to just get out the built up frustration. Everyone's advice/support is very helpful in this battle of the follicles.

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I feel you man. It's like things would be a lot better if no one commented about it and just left you alone. I had pretty much a public ridicule when I went back to school, whole group of people went out for a school function and my hair (I buzzed it because density in hairline disappeared) was a primary topic of discussion. But people got used to it after a week and now it was looked at as a stylistic choice more than anything.

If you don't want to deal with the comments, I do suggest buzzing it. It's in style, look at Drake now - there was a GQ article a month or two ago that buzzing it was an alpha move. If you're in that in-between stage, like I am, where you don't know if the hair thinning is finasteride or if it's actually going for good, it may be a good move. If you're comfortable pulling it off. And then just pray to the finasteride gods that it will regain some density, or pray to the gods that something triggers and changes in your genetic code. It sucks though, I'm with you.

hey man thanks for the advice I actually did have my head shaved down to about a 1 guard for awhile. I was told I have a good head shape so that's a plus. Only problem with that is I have folliculitis on my scalp so it doesn't looking to pretty up there without any hair.

 

[GoldenMane]

I've had several secondary sheds over the course of 2 years. My most recent was in April, always scary... Could be a secondary shed...

If finasteride isn't working for you (give it a little more time) then you should try dutasteride. Good luck!

 

[Rudiger]

I could be wrong in my understanding of finasteride and everything I've learned since being on here, but as long as you stick with it, shedding is 99% of the time a positive thing? I mean it depends on how rapidly you were balding before finasteride, if every now and then you would shed drastically over a few weeks, in that case then it could be finasteride is unfortunately not doing anything.

Otherwise, if you gradually receded and thinned like most people do over years, then the shedding is probably a good sign. Of course you don't need anyone to tell you to stick with it, so that's something because I think we all hate people insinuating they might do that.

 

[g.i joey]

Thanks for the support guys it's good knowing I'm not alone in this.

Ive been on finasteride for about 7 months now. When I started my shedding came to almost a complete stop. However, this past month I've been shedding like a dog. The whole top of my head took a hit. I'm just hoping/praying that it's a shed from the finasteride and that it'll grow back stronger.

if it makes you feel any better my brothers on finasteride for 4 or 5 years now. he gets months where his hair looks like ****. a couple months ago it looked so bad i thought he was losing ground for sure, i saw him last night and his hair looks dense and full, i asked him if he was doing anything different and he wasnt, he just says that every couple months his hair looks like **** for a bit, i think its actually a normal process on finasteride.

 

[GoldenMane]

if it makes you feel any better my brothers on finasteride for 4 or 5 years now. he gets months where his hair looks like ****. a couple months ago it looked so bad i thought he was losing ground for sure, i saw him last night and his hair looks dense and full, i asked him if he was doing anything different and he wasnt, he just says that every couple months his hair looks like **** for a bit, i think its actually a normal process on finasteride.

This. Not everybody gets periodic sheds, some do, some don't. Sheds can happen randomly at any time, and it's scary as hell, you always wonder if finasteride doesn't work or stopped working, but it seems like it always bounces back...

 

[I.D WALKER]

Compound episodic finasteride. related shedding even for a prepared user's "normal" shedding rate or daily fallout and it's got to be a horrific experience.